Hayward, Nick http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9496-7332
Shaban, Mahdi
Badger, James
Jones, Isobel
Wei, Yang
Spencer, Daniel
Isichei, Stefania
Knight, Martin
Otto, James
Rayat, Gurinder
Levett, Denny
Grocott, Michael
Akerman, Harry
White, Neil
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Documents that mention this clinical trial
A capaciflector provides continuous and accurate respiratory rate monitoring for patients at rest and during exercise
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-021-00798-7
Article History
Received: 4 October 2021
Accepted: 23 December 2021
First Online: 18 January 2022
Declarations
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: NH is a part-time advisor to Klinik Healthcare Solutions, UK. MG is vice-president of CPX International. He also serves on the medical advisor board of Sphere Medical Ltd and the board of EBPOM Community Interest Company, Medinspire Ltd and Oxygen Control Systems Ltd. He has received honoraria for speaking for and/or travel expenses from BOC Medical (Linde Group), Edwards Lifesciences and Cortex GmBH and unrestricted research support from Sphere Medical Ltd and Pharmacosmos Ltd. He leads the Fit-4-Surgery research collaboration and the Xtreme Everest oxygen research consortium, which has received unrestricted research grant funding from BOC Medical (Linde Group), Deltex Medical and Smiths Medical. MG was funded in part from the British Oxygen Company Chair of the Royal College of Anaesthetists awarded by the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia. All funding was unrestricted. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript. This work was conducted within the Anaesthesia and Critical Care Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton and the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, as a primary research collaboration.
: For Study 1, we gained Ethics and Research Governance Online approval (ERGO II, Project 56691) via the Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee and the Research Integrity and Governance team, University of Southampton, UK. For Study 2, Ethical and regulatory approvals for our peer-reviewed protocol were sought and obtained via the UK Integrated Research Application System (IRAS, Project ID 251775), yielding UK Heath Research Authority ethical approval (REC 18/WM/0325). Study sponsorship was provided by the Research and Development Department, University Hospital Southampton, UK. We adhered to strict patient confidentiality, data protection and clinical governance standards throughout, including full data anonymization for all subsequent analyses. All research was performed in accordance with local guidelines and UK ethical guidelines.
: One healthy volunteer provided written informed consent for their anonymized photograph to feature in this publication.